Tony Trigilio, in his Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics offers a somewhat different explanation: The origin of the term seems to come under some speculation, one explanation was that Ni**ertown was used pejoratively by protesters in reference to DC during Viet Nam to highlight the segregational practices within the government. The lyric "256 Vietcong captured" refers once more to a Ginsberg line, reporting 256 Vietcong killed and 31 captured.Īs for Ni**town, the reference comes once more from Ginsberg's final line to the Sutra, which was also notably a poetic device he utilized frequently: īorrowing from Ginsberg's Wichita Vortex Sutra, the lyrics for this song takes its title from the line "Viet Cong losses leveling up three five zero zero per month," which Ginsberg attributes to General Taylor or potentially Robert MacNamara. The primary influences in 3-5-0-0 can be attributed to Allen Ginsberg, the antiwar beat poet most commonly know for his epic poem, Howl. Three-Five-Zero-Zero is yet another one of the songs in our production which contains lyrics which are lost on the modern college age performer, so I thought I'd focus on demystifying what exactly Rado and Ragni were thinking when they put pen to paper.
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